Data Feeds 

Macquarie Online Trading

On 22 February 2025, Macquarie Online Share Trading accounts are migrated to Desktop Broker, an online trading platform designed for advisers and their clients. Desktop Broker is a part of Bell Financial Group (Bell), which has been a leader in the Australian stockbroking industry since 1970. Please note, data feeds under Macquarie Online Trading will cease on this date.

Action Required for a smooth migration:

1. Update Product: To set up a new data feed for any Bell Direct/Desktop Broker account, please refer to the Bell Direct user guide. For existing feed, change the product from Macquarie Online Trading to Bell Direct.
2. Account Holder Authority: Once the product update is complete, feed accounts will continue to operate seamlessly.
3. Adviser Authority: New adviser authority must be set up under Bell Direct. Please follow the instructions in this Setup Guide.

Here are some helpful articles to guide you in optimizing Class through efficient data feed management. Here's what you need to know

• Data Feeds Overview: Explore our comprehensive Data Feeds Overview to learn more about the 200+ supported feeds.
• Data Feeds Status: Stay up-to-date with real-time information on any data feed issues by visiting the Data Feeds Status page.
• Quick Reference Guide: Use this guide to determine where to send your signed data feed authority forms.
• Resolving Unbalanced Accounts: This guide offers solutions to common issues with unbalanced accounts and how to resolve them.
• Resolving Duplicate Holdings: Encounter duplicate investment holdings when your data feeds started?  Refer to our article for step by step guidance on resolving this issue
• Feeds No Longer Active Status: Learn about the possible reasons behind inactive data feeds and how to address them in our informative article.
• Data Not Flowing Through: Facing challenges with data not loading after a specific date? Our solution guide for "Fund End Date" or "Do Not Load Data After Date" issues has got you covered.
• Unbalanced Macquarie or Hub24 Feeds: If your Macquarie or Hub24 feeds are unbalanced or missing transactions, utilize the Request History button to fill in the gaps seamlessly.
• BSB Validation Enhancement: Our recent enhancement validates BSBs of bank accounts when you setup new bank feeds, providing prompts for unsupported BSBs. Check out the user guide page for a list of unsupported BSBs.

Tax statements processing

Tax Statements on Class can be created in four different ways:

• Automatic - by generating them in the Tax Statement Console (for directly held investments only)
• OCR (Optical Character Recognition) - by uploading and extracting the data from a file in the Tax Statement Console
• Wrap/Platform feed - some data feed providers that support tax statements as part of their data feed. Otherwise retrieving Tax Statements is available for investment in Wrap accounts which do not have an Automated Tax Statement feed provided.
• Manually entered - when none of the other options is available.

This section of the Help Centre provides an overview of the above 4 options.

Tax Statement Console FAQs article provides answers many questions about this functionality.

An additional reminder to ensure that Tax Statement Processing is recommended to be completed after all Investment Buy & Sells, Processing Corporate Actions, Ensuring all unit balances reconcile before you Generate Income to ensure that Automated Tax Statements can be processed most efficiently.

How to Enter a Tax Statement with AMIT and How to Enter a Tax Statement with Expenses are also a couple of very helpful articles.